J. R. R. Tolkien was a poet at heart. Charmed by the sound of language, he was influenced by everything from the poem The ...

There is a great deal of cynicism about Ulster Scots among unionists. Many consider it a desperately contrived counterweight ...

A group of friends using metal detectors in Somerset stumbled on a buried hoard containing 2,584 medieval coins. Called the Chew Valley Hoard, the coins date from the years around the Norman Conquest ...

Thousands of Afrikaners, descendants of the first European settlers in South Africa, celebrated on Tuesday the "Day of the ...

In 2021, the headmaster of Dover College, a private school on the English south coast, began boasting in promotional ...

"It was supposed to boost the economy, but in reality it only made the state and its citizens poorer, widening inequalities ...

A mass grave found on the grounds of St. John’s College at the University of Oxford in 2008 presented a medieval mystery. Could the dead have been victims of a notorious massacre a thousand years ago?

"Yuletide," a term in Old English used by Norsemen, is a 12-day-long feast celebrating warmth, merriment and fellowship.

Discover the captivating story of VSS Sastri, India's first Agent General in South Africa, whose diplomatic legacy amidst ...

In genetics, scientists must analyze the genomes of millions, if not billions, of people, each carrying millions of variants. It’s an unfathomable amount of data. Which leads us to another central ...

A new book traces the footsteps of Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem for nearly a millennium before the Crusades, and the path ...

These Anglo-Saxon accessories were recovered from the side of a hill in England and may be from a hoard, a ritual deposit or ...